Activism: Quality, Not Quantity | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Nov. 25, 2014

In the Vietnam War protest song "Five to One," Jim Morrison of The Doors sings:

The old get old/And the young get stronger
May take a week/And it may take longer
They got the guns/But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah/We're takin' over

In my youth, I took solace in the whole "we got the numbers" thing but it eventually became crystal clear that the ones with the guns have had it all figured out for a very, very long time. Philosopher David Hume, in 1758, explained it this way: "As force is always on side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world," added Gore Vidal. "No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity, much less dissent."

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